[ecrea] new book announcement: The Promiscuity of Network Culture

Please permit me to announce the publication of my book The Promiscuity 
of Network Culture: Queer Theory and Digital Media, now available from 
Routledge.

Liking, sharing, friending, going viral: what would it mean to recognize 
these current modes of media interaction as promiscuous? In a 
contemporary network culture characterized by a proliferation of new 
forms of intimate mediated sociality, this book argues that promiscuity 
is a new standard of user engagement. Intimate relations among media 
users and between users and their media are increasingly structured by 
an entrepreneurial logic and put to work for the economic interests of 
media corporations. But these multiple intimacies can also be understood 
as technologies of promiscuous desire serving both to liberalize 
mediated social connection and to contain it within normative frames of 
value. This book brings crucial questions of gender, sexuality, 
intimacy, and attention back into conversation with recent thinking on 
network culture and social media, identifying the queer undercurrents of 
these current media dynamics.

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138816510/

Robert Payne
Assistant Professor of Global Communications
American University of Paris